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Just a skiff. We need more before it gets cold, and we need it to get cold so we can go ice fishing.
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In between hard and soft water seasons here.
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Looks like you had a great weekend Mark and there's nothing better than helping someone catch a fish that is a first whether it's the biggest or a new species to them. The look on Christine's face is Priceless
but once in a blue moon you can get one in the 18'' range but we do have some good size Pike,tiger muskie,and Salom to catch, all of which are stocked by to state. We do have have some very big largemouth bass that can be got year round so at least mass has one game fish that alaska doesn't Lol. Btw the lakes around here have about an inch of ice on them so it won't be long now for me so ice fishing pics are soon to come. Happy fish Hunting and keep them pics coming.
Wow you caught some beauties again mark. I haven't seen Rainbows like that since I fished on the colorado river in Arizona on a stretch called Lee's ferry. That's also the Biggest Brook trout I've ever seen. The warmer lake temps in eastern Mass don't favor growth like that
Salmon was the species lol. As for the "Pet Bass" theory, that's probably the most likely theory of all. My nephew caught piranha at a local lake some years back, not the little red piranhas you see on TV but a much bigger species so I made a call to the fish and game and they came to see it that night. I wanted to have a taxidermist mount it but the state explained that it was illegal to have one in possession dead or alive but a couple weeks later he received an official certificate explaining the rare catch and the local paper did an interview with him. Talk about a proud kid, seems at the time he was the only person to report cachting one on rod and reel in massachusetts and hopefully it will remain that way for a long time. Another lake I fish had a 4 foot former Pet alligator swimming around it until we had the first frost. I never saw it myself but one dark night of fishing I hooked into something that gave me the craziest fight like nothing I ever experienced before til it snapped my line. Heck when I was a little younger and a lot dumber I was transporting smallmouth bass into my favorit lake hoping that they would take until someone told me how much it would cost me if I got caught so it happens. I thought I would share a pic of my first Lake Trout I caught on Lake George in upstate new york last summer. I cant tell you how much it weighed or how long it was because I wanted to get her back in the water ASAP seeing that I battled it up from a 110'' of water and no one wanted to clean it because we already had enough food to feed us for the week. You know the saying "Only take what you can eat" Cheers and tight lines to you 
